Famous quotes containing the words pascal and/or language:
“It is superstitious to put one’s hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)